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Thames cable car opens

THE new cable car service across the Thames in East London opens today (Thursday) carrying people in its pods.

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Published: 28 June 2012

CART trading subsidary

IN A Parliamentary statement reported in Hansard in June, Canal and River Trading CIC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canal & River Trust, which apparently has to be set up according to Charity Law,  writes Martin Howes.

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Published: 28 June 2012

Email: 'Locked horns'

I have 'locked horns' with Sir Adrian Stott in the past over leaving lock gates open, for he has been promoting this for many years in one media or another.

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Published: 28 June 2012

Don't leave them open

I must say I was amazed at you including that about leaving lock gates open from Adrian Stott, as he has had this bee in his bonnet for years back in Waterways World, writes Jimmy Lockwood.

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Published: 28 June 2012

100th birthday journey

A RESTORED narrowboat is making a 100th birthday journey across the canal network from the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port to the London Canal Museum—and taking all summer to do it.

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Published: 27 June 2012

Whose is the sunken boat?

A FAIRLY new Sea Otter, Nook is sunk on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, with no one in the area knowing who owns it, David King writes.

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Published: 27 June 2012

Rewards for failure

THE May Canal & River Trust (CART) update omits to tell that British Waterways directors are being rewarded for failure by becoming directors of a community interest company (CIC) set up as CART's trading subsidiary, writes Allan Richards.

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Published: 27 June 2012

Making use of the Montgomery

THE Montgomery Canal Forum, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the waterway, held at  Welshpool Town Hall showed that many businesses are making use of the waterway.

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Published: 25 June 2012

Car rescued from canal

IT TOOK British Waterways staff over three hours to rescue a car from the Rochdale Canal at Walsden on the East of the summit pound late last week.

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Published: 25 June 2012

Boaters rescued from Northern waterways

WITH an estimated month's worth of rain in 24 hours around Calderdale, the Rochdale Canal, Calder & Hebble and Aire & Calder are all flooded with boaters having to be rescued.

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Published: 25 June 2012

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